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SUBMITTER: Male PG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5597825 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Malé Pierre-Jean G PG Turner Kyle M KM Doha Manjima M Anreiter Ina I Allen Aaron M AM Sokolowski Marla B MB Frederickson Megan E ME
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20170901 1862
In plant-animal mutualisms, how an animal forages often determines how much benefit its plant partner receives. In many animals, foraging behaviour changes in response to <i>foraging</i> gene expression or activation of the cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) that <i>foraging</i> encodes. Here, we show that this highly conserved molecular mechanism affects the outcome of a plant-animal mutualism. We studied the two PKG genes of <i>Allomerus octoarticulatus,</i> an Amazonian ant that defends the ...[more]